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“I was pondering the vanity of human wishes and the desperation of human hope, the tooth of time, the vulnerability of good and the unseen omnipresence of evil, and the frailty and passion of life.”

— Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner Quote: “I was pondering the vanity of human wishes and the desperation of human hope, the tooth of time, the vulnerability of good and the unseen omnipresence of evil, and the frailty and passion of life.”

“I was pondering the vanity of human wishes and the desperation of human hope, the tooth of time, the vulnerability of good and the unseen omnipresence of evil, and the frailty and passion of life.”

— Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner Quote: “I was pondering the vanity of human wishes and the desperation of human hope, the tooth of time, the vulnerability of good and the unseen omnipresence of evil, and the frailty and passion of life.”

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1. “If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?”

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2. “I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they’d see it wasn’t the answer to anything.”

3. “The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.”

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4. “Life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you.”

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5. “The truth will set you free.”

6. “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.”

7. “So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.”

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8. “If I’m not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.”

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9. “Risk being seen in all of your glory.”

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10. “My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.”

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11. “It’s our intention. Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention.”

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12. “I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don’t want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”

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13. “You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world. You will only ever have two choices- love or fear. Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.”

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14. “Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.”

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15. “Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all it will ever be is what’s happening here, the decisions in that we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear.”

16. “Hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it.”

17. “Don’t worry if you miss your cue, because there are always doors opening. They keep opening.”

18. “That peace that we’re after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall.”

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19. “Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself.”

20. “Not hope, but Faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.”

21. “As far as I can tell, it’s just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.”

22. “Choose love and don’t ever let fear turn you away from your playful heart.”

23. “I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich.”

24. “Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much!”

25. “To find real peace you have to let the armor go. Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”

26. “You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.”

27. “You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”

28. “I like challenges and I don’t believe in failure. I don’t believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure – all those concepts – are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.”

29. “I have no limits! I cannot be contained because I’m the container.”

30. “You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.”

31. “Those times in life when you’re terrified are the mastery times.”

32. “Ultimately, we’re not the avatars we create. We’re not the pictures on the film stock. We are the light that shines through it. All else is just smoke and mirrors. Distracting, but not truly compelling.”

33. “There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that’s going to eat you.”

34. “50 years: here’s a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren’t doing what you love, then what’s the point?”

35. “If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.”

36. “The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.”

37. “Our eyes are not viewers, they’re also projectors that are running a second story over the picture that we see in front of us all the time. Fear is writing that script, and the working title is ‘I’ll never be enough’”

38. “It’s Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don’t.”

39. “I want to be a positive force in the world. I would like to make people happy.”

40. “I’ve often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it’s not where you’ll find your sense of completion.”

41. “All there will ever be is what’s happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality.”

42. “For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.”

43. “Isn’t it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?”

44. “I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.”

45. “There’s been a thoughtfulness to everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point.”

46. “Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.”

47. “The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.”

48. “I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.”

49. “Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who’s afraid of the big black bat?”

50. “I feel like I’ve lived the dream for sure, I’m the luckiest guy in the world and I never forget that. I always feel like I’m proof of positive thought and manifestation, and that faith is more important than talent. But if you have both you’re really doing something.”

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